Promicrogaster sebastiancambroneroi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2016

Fernandez-Triana, Jose, Boudreault, Caroline, Dapkey, Tanya, Smith, M. Alex, Rodriguez, J., Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H., 2016, Revision of the genus Promicrogaster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 50, pp. 25-79 : 56-57

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/JHR.50.8220

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8899289F-7707-4666-9D57-068469D75918

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1EEA621A-D68F-495B-98B9-809993983FEE

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:1EEA621A-D68F-495B-98B9-809993983FEE

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scientific name

Promicrogaster sebastiancambroneroi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault
status

sp. n.

Promicrogaster sebastiancambroneroi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. n.

Figs 148-153 View Figures 148–153

Holotype.

Female, CNC. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Cacao, Cerro Pedregal, 1080m, 10.92767, -85.47449. DNA Voucher code: DHJPAR0033736.

Description.

Head: mostly black, labrum and mandibles orange-brown. Flagellomeres: dark brown. Mesosoma: black. Tegula: dark brown. Metasoma (dorsally): black to dark brown. Metacoxa: mostly black to dark brown (posterior 0.1-0.2 yellow). Malar distance: 0.2-0.3 × eye length. Fore wing areolet: absent. T1 sculpture: anterior 0.5 smooth, posterior 0.5 sculptured. T2 sculpture: mostly sculptured, except for smooth central area. Ocular-ocellar line: 0.10 mm. Interocellar distance: 0.08 mm. Posterior ocellus diameter: 0.05 mm. Body length: 2.43 mm. Fore wing length: 2.37 mm. Ovipositor length: 1.73 mm. Metacoxa length: 0.50 mm. Metafemur length: 0.56 mm. Metatibia length: 0.69 mm. T1 length/width at posterior margin: 0.22 mm/ 0.16 mm. T2 length/width at posterior margin: 0.08 mm/ 0.27 mm.

Distribution.

Known only from the holotype locality in ACG, cloud forest, Costa Rica.

Etymology.

Promicrogaster sebastiancambroneroi is named in honor of 12-year-old Erick Sebastián Cambronero Narváez from the Colonia Bolaños school for his growing enthusiasm for understanding and protecting the wild nature that occurs in his homeland.